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Oct 2025
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John Carpenter - Halloween (1978)

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Halloween has come early, which is only fair as two of us are coming very late to Halloween, John Carpenter's genre-setting 1978 teen slasher classic.


The adults are all busy at boring grown-up parties, the teens are constantly on the phone and swapping houses, and Michael Myers - inscrutable killer, embodiment of evil, and provider of cheap Halloween costume options for several generations - has been to the hardware store and is ready to work.


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Our October John Carpenter series:

Dark Star - 6/10/25

Assault On Precinct 13 - 13/10/25

Bonus - The Fog - 15/10/25

Halloween - 20/10/25

Escape From New York - 27/10/25

Bonus - Prince Of Darkness - 29/10/25

The Thing - 3/11/25


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